Interstate 101
What is Interstate?
Interstate is the design system we apply to create a best-in-class experience for Cox Automotive retail and wholesale solutions. Comprised of principles, standards, patterns, and components, Interstate allows us to deliver the One Cox Automotive experience dealers need, and creates a platform to elevate novel components, patterns, guidelines, and approaches for broader use.
With Interstate, we can broaden the impact of department- and product-level creativity and apply it across the enterprise to achieve our goal of improving the user experience.
Who is Interstate for?
Interstate has 3 core audiences:
- Clients (Dealers, OEM Reps, Truckers, Dispatchers, etc) and Team members)
- Designers
- Developers
Why Interstate?
- To make it more efficient for our customers to work through their day-to-day experiences by streamlining how users navigate through all of our products
- To share standards and patterns collectively so we don't re-invent the wheel but instead can efficiently focus our efforts
- To empower creativity by helping UX design spend less time on repeatable surface-level UI details, offering more time to focus on structural decisions and explore fundamentally different alternatives
- To enable innovation by enabling the development of new and improved products to go to market faster
- To reduce front end development churn and costs with pre-defined solutions, enabling a composable user experience
Interstate's Core Pillars
- Guidelines: communicate the brand effectively and consistently. This covers style, voice and tone, interaction, usability, accessibility, performance, etc.
- Tooling: deliver component libraries that prevent repeated work and enforce brand standards
- Process: ensure compliance and adapt and evolve the guidelines to new use cases
- Organization: establish clear responsibilities and process to ensure that the guidelines are followed